Powers seems to have been a small part in a big picture.

All U2 flights had been banned by Ike and the Whitehouse. Dulles says he did not give approval - so who did ?

Powers was set up to crash land and continue the forever wars via increased tension that we continued to see in a range of places around the world as direct fighting or proxy wars

Col Prouty says each U2 mission had 3 pilots and 3 planes - no pilot knew if he would go until they were all ready or which plane would be used and all U2 flights were banned by Ike.

So for Powers to end up in the plane with his ID stuff etc in his parachute seat (when all pilots went clean of any items) plus to have run out of the hydorgen fuel used to keep the engines working where oxygen was too low to work without it, and brought the plane down, really shows the fix was in.

Also if he had ejected and had not landed all the ID stuff would have scattered from his parachute seat and not been found.

It seems to be about forever wars being set up for the future bringing down the U2 helped that - Col Prouty says by 1960 the U2 missions were a joint AF-CIA operation as he supplied all the fuel, tech support, pilots, bases etc for the CIA and his office was located next to the group who prepared the cover story for each CIA op of any sort including Bay of Pigs etc

Col Prouty says the fact the Oswald story has survived since 1963 and the media wont discuss the alternatives and attacked the movie JFK so heavily shows how powerful those promoting the Oswald story are.

Prouty says he was given the names of 4 people who authorized actioning the JFK killing very shortly after by someone he knew well but suspects others were involved above them.

Cuba showed JFK what the CIA were doing and why how they took the small plan Ike approved and turned it into an invasion with arns for 25,000 in the ships plus 1500 to land in the Bay of Pigs.

Kennedy only approved the plan if all the Cuban aircraft were destroyed which they were not.

Bundy seems to have given orders not to fly and destroy the last Cuban planes and also drafted and circulated memo 273 the day before JFKs assassination reversing JFKs memo 263 of a month earlier pulling troops out of Vietnam by 1965

The suggestion is the CIA were more interested in Vietnam which Kennedy was stopping. In one Prouty interview a researcher discusses that In 1965 Vietnam planning was for a 10 year war and 57,000 US deaths - the source was the researchers mother who was in Pentagon War Planning

The CIA was not v interested in Cuba as it would be a short war after the invasion and were more worried that Ike and Kennedy were putting an end to their ability to create forever wars as both planned to co-operate with Russia on the space program plus disarmament etc and hand over covert ops to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Ike had agreed to do reduce arms and meet with Khrushchev to do this - but the U2 coming down stopped that progress and led to his military industrial complex speech plus multi heart attacks

There was also a $6billion fighter jet program which Ike delayed but Kennedy adjusted and gave to another bidder for various political vote winning reasons

https://pastdaily.com/2019/09/25/september-25-1959-ike-and-khrushchev-at-camp-david-2/

The CIA was in Vietnam from 1945. According to Col Prouty the after Japan surrendered the US sent $250m of arms to supply 10 divisions to North Vietnam then CIA backed in 1945 and the other $250m to South Korea - all from Okinawa where it was waiting to be used for invasion of Japan

All part of the planning for the forever wars

https://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/USO/chp2_p1.html#pgfId=1469

Thats my take on it for now.

If we do not learn from History we will repeat until we destroy ourselves and our society - so far all human empires ended in failure and self destruction via corruption from within